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Migrants in the Attic: The Case of Migrants with Disabilities and Resettlement Services in Serbia

Laws, 2021
The global migrant crisis triggered an unprecedented number of asylum seekers in the Balkan region. In this case study, the state of migrants with disabilities—a community notoriously overlooked during global conflict—is explored through field interviews
Joel John Badali
doaj   +1 more source

The collective application of shorebird tracking data to conservation

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Addressing urgent conservation issues, such as the drastic declines of North American migratory birds, requires creative, evidence‐based, efficient, and collaborative approaches. The abundance of over 50% of monitored North American shorebird populations has declined by over 50% since 1980. To address these declines, we developed a partnership
Autumn‐Lynn Harrison, Candace Stenzel, Alexandra Anderson, Jessica Howell, Richard B. Lanctot, Marley Aikens, Joaquín Aldabe, Liam A. Berigan, Joël Bêty, Erik Blomberg, Juliana Bosi de Almeida, Andy J. Boyce, David W. Bradley, Stephen Brown, Jay Carlisle, Edward Cheskey, Katherine Christie, Sylvain Christin, Rob Clay, Ashley Dayer, Jill L. Deppe, Willow English, Scott A. Flemming, Olivier Gilg, Christine Gilroy, Susan Heath, Jason M. Hill, J. Mark Hipfner, James A. Johnson, Luanne Johnson, Bart Kempenaers, Paul Knaga, Eunbi Kwon, Benjamin J. Lagassé, Jean‐François Lamarre, Christopher Latty, Don‐Jean Léandri‐Breton, Nicolas Lecomte, Pam Loring, Laura A. McDuffie, Rebecca McGuire, Scott Moorhead, Juan G. Navedo, David Newstead, Erica Nol, Alina Olalla‐Kerstupp, Bridget Olson, Elizabeth Olson, Julie Paquet, Allison K. Pierce, Jennie Rausch, Kevin Regan, Matthew E. Reiter, Amber M. Roth, Mike Russell, Daniel Ruthrauff, Sarah T. Saalfeld, Amy L. Scarpignato, Shiloh Schulte, Nathan R. Senner, Joseph A. M. Smith, Paul A. Smith, Zach Spector, Kelly Srigley Werner, Michelle L. Stantial, Audrey R. Taylor, T. Lee Tibbitts, Mihai Valcu, Nils Warnock, Walter Wehtje, Brad Winn, Michael B. Wunder   +71 more
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking Barriers to Renewable Energy Production in the North American Arctic [PDF]

, 2018
As climate change continues to affect our lives, the communities at the northern extremes of our world have witnessed the changes most profoundly. In the Arctic, where climate change is melting permafrost and causing major shoreline erosion, remote ...
Strand, Henrik
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Inuit gender parity and why it was not accepted in the Nunavut legislature [PDF]

, 2006
Cet article concerne les circonstances historiques qui ont mené au plébiscite non exécutoire de 1997 sur la parité des sexes dans ce qui allait devenir le Nunavut.
Williamson, Laakkuluk Jessen
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The Impact of Canada's Working Income Tax Benefit on the Labor Supply of Low‐Income Workers

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We use administrative tax data to estimate the effect of the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) on the labor supply of single, low‐income workers in Canada. Our analytical approach exploits low knowledge of the program, which generates variation in the benefit receipt both between and within eligible tax filers over time.
Kourtney Koebel, Dionne Pohler
wiley   +1 more source

Building the System: Follow-up, monitoring & adaptive management [PDF]

, 2020
Does impact assessment (IA) end when the license has been granted? While societal resources tend to focus on rigorous project approvals, what happens to the project, to the public and to the environment once approval is granted?
Fitzpatrick, Patricia, Williams, Byron
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The formation of Laurentia : Evidence from shear wave splitting [PDF]

, 2017
The authors would like to thank A. Walker for invaluable help understanding the MSAT forward modelling code, as well as A. Boyce, L. Petrescu, and C.
Bastow, Ian, Darbyshire, Fiona, Gilligan, Amy, Liddell, Mitch V, Pugh, Steven   +4 more
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Arctic lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) show evidence of seasonal acclimation of cardiac adrenergic sensitivity but not heat tolerance

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Many Arctic fishes experience prolonged periods of extreme cold and large thermal variation over both rapid and seasonal time scales which challenge critical physiological functions. In the central Canadian Arctic, we caught wild adult lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) acclimatized to winter and summer temperatures to determine the extent to ...
Emily P. Williams, Les N. Harris, Jean‐Sébastien Moore, Ella K. Middleton, Shira A. Berkelhammer, Ben Speers‐Roesch, Matthew J. H. Gilbert   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Re-Presenting the Past: A New Archaeological Outreach Strategy for the Canadian Territory of Nunavut

Open Archaeology, 2016
In 2013, an Arctic-based organization known as the Inuit Heritage Trust spearheaded a new campaign to increase archaeological awareness in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
Griebel Brendan, Diesel Torsten, Rast Tim   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Return migration to fresh water and overwintering locations used by sympatric anadromous populations of Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma malma)

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and northern form Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma malma) are highly valued by Indigenous communities in northern Canada. Rapid, ongoing environmental changes are affecting populations of both of these iteroparous species, and understanding variability in life‐history tactics is essential for ...
Rosie Smith, Eric Hitkolok, Amanda Dumond, Simon DePasquale, Hannah Thibault, Spencer Weinstein, Paul Craig, Tracey Loewen, Heidi Swanson   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source